elephanta island is great. gandhi's house was bizarrely hard to find but had lots of interesting stuff including letters to tolstoy, hitler &c. leopold's is/was the classic tourist spot/restaurant & good for meeting ppl but i think it was hit in the attacks so i'm not sure what state it's in. there are loads of beautiful colonial era buildings in colaba incl some churches w/ graves of british military guys w/ their colourful deaths explained eg. pirates, & you should take a little train ride to/from the main train station (cst/victoria). mumbai is fun/interesting at night, can't recall place names but even just on the street getting approached by bollywood ppl asking if you'd like to play a westerner in an ice-cream advert or baked tanzanian drug dealers trying to teach you how to swallow bags of heroin. malabar hill has some nice parks (but the towers of silence are hidden away, so no morbid gawking there). the cricket club is fun to look round but i only got in as a guest of an elderly wealthy man who was keen on me getting naked so we cld go swim/sauna together. still got his email if yr interested. basically mumbai is so busy i think you'd have a great time winging it but otoh i can easily imagine spending three days in shock at babies sleeping on the streets &c.
― ogmor, Thursday, 6 September 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link